Are they joking?
As from now as a developer, whenever you need to read data from an ODBC source (and thus your only option is to use the ADO NET Source component in a data flow task - no ODBC data source anymore), you are in big trouble when you want to use ugly beasts like parameters. Parameters? Who needs them anyway they must have been thinking at Microsoft SSIS development team.
In 2005 you had the option "SQL from variable" in combination with expressions, which was a quick and dirty way to force parameter insertion, but now, since they just gave up on that option, you're in big ... as a developer.
I hope I am terribly wrong here, could somebody please help me out on how to pass parameters to an ODBC data source in SSIS 2008??
Thanks in advance,
A frustrated Tom with a deadline in mind
Tom De Cort - BI Consultant
As from now as a developer, whenever you need to read data from an ODBC source (and thus your only option is to use the ADO NET Source component in a data flow task - no ODBC data source anymore), you are in big trouble when you want to use ugly beasts like parameters. Parameters? Who needs them anyway they must have been thinking at Microsoft SSIS development team.
In 2005 you had the option "SQL from variable" in combination with expressions, which was a quick and dirty way to force parameter insertion, but now, since they just gave up on that option, you're in big ... as a developer.
I hope I am terribly wrong here, could somebody please help me out on how to pass parameters to an ODBC data source in SSIS 2008??
Thanks in advance,
A frustrated Tom with a deadline in mind
Tom De Cort - BI Consultant